Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Wednesday Whatnot

On a cool and rainy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, author J.K. Rowling did not "misgender" anyone, but simply told the truth.

From FrontpageMag, Muslims vandalize an Arabic restaurant in Bradford, England because it sells Coca-Cola.

From Townhall, the dirty little secret of this year's presidential campaign.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Speaker Johnson (R-LA) will bring MIT Israel Alliance president Talia Khan to President Biden's State of the Union speech as his guest.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter MGT (R-GA) gonna MGT.

From The Federalist, former President Trump's sweep of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses is his "ultimate revenge".  (I disagree.  His "ultimate revenge" would be winning the general election this coming November.)

From American Thinker, leftists learn that cell phone tracking technology goes both ways.

From MRCTV, Biden loses the Democratic caucus in American Samoa.

From NewsBusters, Big Tech's worst censorship during February.

From Canada Free Press, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) didn't lose the presidential primary race, because she wasn't really in it.

From TeleSURPeruvian Prime Minister Alberto Otarola announces his resignation.

From TCW Defending Freedom, supermarkets in the U.K. "are driving farmers into the ground".

From Snouts in the Trough, will the West's rulers choose humiliation or annihilation?

From ReMix, according to "recent polling", a majority of Austrians want no more refugees.  (If you read German, read the story at Heute, whose name means "today".)

From Russia Today, T-72B3 - 1, M1-Abrams - 0.

From Sputnik International, at the World Youth Festival, President Putin tells the participants that "Russia is now your friend".  (Due to my Slovak and Polish ancestry, I like to regard Russia as my relative.)

From The Moscow Times, former chess champion Garry Kasparov is added to Russia's list of "terrorists and extremists".  (How do you get onto this list?  One way is to criticize Putin.)

From The Kyiv Independent, a Russian missile strikes the Ukrainian port of Odesa during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.  (Please welcome my newest source, The Kyiv Independent.)

From EuroNews, the Ukrainian army claims to have shot down 38 Russian drones.

From Voice Of Europe, the war between Russia and Ukraine might have found a second front in Sudan.

From Romania-Insider, according to European People's Party leader Manfred Weber, the party favors Romania being added to the Schengen Zone.

From Novinite, the earliest Christian artifact in Bulgaria is revealed.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian parliament accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov and his party.

From Radio Bulgaria, the outgoing Denkov administration adopts a program to help Bulgarian people who live outside of Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, a skeleton found at the Italian archaeological site of Pompeii shows that Greek culture thrived in the ancient Roman Empire.

From Ekathimerini, the forgotten tunnels and shelters under Athens, Greece.

From the Greek City Times, four Pakistanis and a Bulgarian woman are arrested on the Greek island of Crete for allegedly possessing almost 3 kilos of hashish.

From Balkan Insight, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier is convicted of killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Ključ, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  (The Bosniaks are the Slavic Muslims native to Bosnia and Hercegovina.  The name "Ključ" resembles the Polish word klucz, which means "key".)

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan Princess Lalla Asmae and Côte d'Ivoire First Lady Dominique Ouattara inaugurate an audiology center and a hearing screening program for newborns in Rabat, Morocco.

From The New Arab, Iraqi militias claim to have targeted the Haifa Airport in Israel with drones.

From the Daily Mail, an artist depicts the Dome des Invalides, where Napoleon is buried, without the cross on top of its spire, causing some anger.

From The Jerusalem Post, U.K. Foreign Office staff are taught that Hamas are not terrorists.

From RAIR Foundation USA, Frankfurt, Germany puts up Ramadan lights.

From Gatestone Institute, why the U.S. has been ineffective against the Houthis in Yemen.

From The Stream, women's groups respond to sex offenses committed by illegal aliens with a "deafening silence".

From The Daily Signal, why critics of "banning" books are wrong.

From The American Conservative, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a "man of his era".

From The Western Journal, Trump responds to the aforementioned Nikki Haley suspending her presidential campaign, and sends a message to her supporters.

From BizPac Review, in her exit speech, Haley invokes the late U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and refuses to endorse Trump.

From The Daily Wire, congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) urges the DOJ inspector general to investigate Special Counsel Jack Smith.

From the Daily Caller, the Supreme Court schedules a date to hear Trump's presidential immunity appeal.

From the New York Post, the House passes a "minibus" bill in order to avert a partial government shutdown.

From Breitbart, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) introduces a bill intended to curb pro-Hamas riots.

From Newsmax, crime has gotten so bad on the New York City subway that Governor Kathy Hochul (R-NY) is sending in the National Guard.

And from the Genesius Times, the aforementioned Ukrainian President Zelensky wears a black armband to mourn the aforementioned end of Nikki Haley's U.S. presidential campaign.

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